Well good morning everyone... I hope today is a very active and profitable day for each of you.
Reading the Mercury message from FTD late yesterday, I see where they are doing each filler fool a favor by promoting (finally) florist delivered products on their front page today, and asking you to all stay open on the 14th so they can send you all these wonderful (heavily discounted) orders, so you can make THEM look like the hero. FTD claims they are doing this for you, not direct shipping that is for Sunday. Do they have a choice? To my limited knowledge there is not FED/UP delivery on Sunday...
And listening to the ProFlowers commercials has almost gotten revolting, with them bashing real florists and our product and services. But that's OK, cuz now you get to help them look good too, by filling all their $19.95 free vase dozen rose orders through Teleflora...
I spoke with Vinnie last night, he's been my UPS driver for 20 years now...we talked about boxed flowers, and he mentioned that yesterday (it was 25 degrees here) of the 11 boxes he had on his route that 9 were not home, and left on the porch, first one at about 8 am... He and I both laughed, knowing that they would be frozen by late afternoon, but it's sad too because a recipient is going to have a bad experience with flowers. He mentioned that when the boxes arrive at the local depot, that many of them are already in bad shape, bent, crushed, with holes and torn. Their contract states simply that they WILL LEAVE the package in a conspicuous location at the delivery address, and that that is where their responsibility ends.
Ya'll keep filling those company orders... help them look good and assist them in continuing to remove the profits from the industry...it's all good~!
Reading the Mercury message from FTD late yesterday, I see where they are doing each filler fool a favor by promoting (finally) florist delivered products on their front page today, and asking you to all stay open on the 14th so they can send you all these wonderful (heavily discounted) orders, so you can make THEM look like the hero. FTD claims they are doing this for you, not direct shipping that is for Sunday. Do they have a choice? To my limited knowledge there is not FED/UP delivery on Sunday...
And listening to the ProFlowers commercials has almost gotten revolting, with them bashing real florists and our product and services. But that's OK, cuz now you get to help them look good too, by filling all their $19.95 free vase dozen rose orders through Teleflora...
I spoke with Vinnie last night, he's been my UPS driver for 20 years now...we talked about boxed flowers, and he mentioned that yesterday (it was 25 degrees here) of the 11 boxes he had on his route that 9 were not home, and left on the porch, first one at about 8 am... He and I both laughed, knowing that they would be frozen by late afternoon, but it's sad too because a recipient is going to have a bad experience with flowers. He mentioned that when the boxes arrive at the local depot, that many of them are already in bad shape, bent, crushed, with holes and torn. Their contract states simply that they WILL LEAVE the package in a conspicuous location at the delivery address, and that that is where their responsibility ends.
Ya'll keep filling those company orders... help them look good and assist them in continuing to remove the profits from the industry...it's all good~!
